﻿/****************************************************************************************************
	Copyright (C) 2010 RapidWebDev Organization (http://rapidwebdev.org)
	Author: Eunge, Legal Name: Jian Liu, Email: eunge.liu@RapidWebDev.org

	This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
	the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
	(at your option) any later version.

	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
	GNU General Public License for more details.

	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
	along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 ****************************************************************************************************/

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using Lucene.Net.Analysis;
using Lucene.Net.Analysis.Snowball;
using Lucene.Net.Analysis.Standard;
using Lucene.Net.Index;
using RapidWebDev.Common;
using RapidWebDev.SearchIndex.Contract;
using Lucene.Net.Store;

namespace RapidWebDev.SearchIndex
{
	/// <summary>
	/// The service to index request documents by pulling from index message coordinator.
	/// </summary>
	public interface IIndexService : IDisposable
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// The root directory to store all index directories.
		/// </summary>
		string RootIndexDirectory { get; }

		/// <summary>
		/// Start work to index request documents.
		/// </summary>
		IIndexService StartWork();

		/// <summary>
		/// Stop indexing and abort all indexing threads.
		/// </summary>
		void Stop();
	}
}